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Consumer Responses to Firms' Voluntary Disclosure of Information : Evidence from Calorie Labeling by Starbucks

Avery, Rosemary J.; Cawley, John H.; Eddelbuettel, Julia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper estimates the impact on consumer behavior of a firm's voluntary disclosure of information. Specifically, we study the impact of Starbucks' disclosure of calorie information on its menu boards in June 2013. Using data on over 250,000 consumers' visits to specific restaurant chains, we...

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North-South Displacement Effects of Environmental Regulation : The Case of Battery Recycling

Tanaka, Shinsuke; Teshima, Kensuke; Verhoogen, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This study examines the effect of a tightening of the U.S. air-quality standard for lead in 2009 on the relocation of battery recycling to Mexico and on infant health in Mexico. In the U.S., airborne lead dropped sharply near affected plants, most of which were battery-recycling plants. Exports...

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Health Shocks of the Father and Longevity of the Children's Children

Costa, Dora L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

's ex-POW status in the US Civil War (1861-5) and the children are born after the war. Ancestral stress is associated with …

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Effects of State-Level Earned Income Tax Credit Laws in the U.S. on Maternal Health Behaviors and Infant Health Outcomes

Markowitz, Sara - 2017

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of state-level Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) laws in the U.S. on maternal health behaviors and infant health outcomes. Using multi-state, multi-year difference-in-differences analyses, we estimated effects of state EITC generosity on...

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Regressive Sin Taxes, With an Application to the Optimal Soda Tax

Allcott, Hunt - 2019

A common objection to "sin taxes"--corrective taxes on goods that are thought to be overconsumed, such as cigarettes, alcohol, and sugary drinks--is that they often fall disproportionately on low-income consumers. This paper studies the interaction between corrective and redistributive motives...

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Nutrition Labels and Obesity

Variyam, Jayachandran N. - 2006

-in-differences method. We compare the change before and after the implementation of NLEA in body weight among those who use labels when food …

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The Relationship Between Diet, Parent"s Fatness, and Obesity in Children and Adolescents

Coate, Douglas - 1983

has statistically important impacts on skinfold growth among children and adolescents. Diets between obese and non …

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Do Stricter Immunization Laws Improve Coverage? Evidence from the Repeal of Non-medical Exemptions for School Mandated Vaccines

Richwine, Chelsea J. - 2019

Nonmedical exemptions are widely shown to be associated with outbreaks of vaccine-preventable disease. In response to a recent measles outbreak in 2015, California acted to increase immunization coverage by removing all nonmedical exemptions effective in 2016. Employing a unique dataset of...

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Economic Contextual Factors and Child Body Mass Index

Powell, Lisa M. - 2009

.60 among low-income children. Fast food prices are statistically significantly related to child weight only in cross …This study examines the relationship between child weight and fast food and fruit and vegetable prices and the … availability of fast food restaurants, full-service restaurants, supermarkets, grocery stores and convenience stores. We estimate …

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Child Care Subsidies and Childhood Obesity

Herbst, Chris M. - 2009

. However, little is known about the influence of these policies on children's health and well-being. In this paper, we study … the impact of subsidy receipt on low-income children's weight outcomes in the fall and spring of kindergarten. The goals … subsidy receipt has heterogeneous effects on children's weight at different points in the BMI distribution. Results suggest …

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